Pollutants: How Can We Help Our Planet?Pollutants are all around us. Water pollutants. Air pollutants. Soil pollutants. We just can't escape them. But what can we do to decrease them? The easy answ...

Batteries (and the Oxidation-Reduction Reaction)There is a special class of reactions called oxidation-reduction reactions that play an important role in our everyday lives. This mouthful of a reac...

Robert Angus Smith, an English chemist and climatologist, first coined the phrase "acid rain" in 1852.3 He used the phrase to describe the acidic precipitation that fell over major cities in Englan...